Blu rays of Sunshine

[jovianconsensus]

Well, my sister and everyone on the Internet were right. The first two thirds of Sunshine are beautiful hard-ish science fiction. The last third is a complete waste of time.

Milestones: This is not my first Blu-Ray movie, but it is the first completed (obviously Planet Earth is a long-term project). It is my first Blu-Ray rental from Netflix.

Comments

[once_a_banana]

Agree. I still love the movie though, and repeat viewings (when you can accept ahead of time the strange turn the movie will take) are less disappointing. I absolutely revel in the golden color palette. Not so much the film-stretching multi-exposure effect.

The disc has a pretty amusing and unique commentary track by an actual CERN physicist....
(But oh my god keep away from those "short films" Danny Boyle included from his friends. Absolute garbage.)

[jovianconsensus]

Yes, I still consider it a must-watch. On reflection, my quick review was a bit harsh. The important fact is that it's two-thirds of a great movie, and most movies don't manage to be that good for nearly that long. It reminds me of Dune, another sci-fi movie that goes off the rails in the second half, and as I said about that, "half a good movie is better than none."

Plus my LJ username suggests that I will eventually forgive you if you spill your horror in my sci-fi.

[once_a_banana]

Hey, and if you are watching Blu-ray now (yay!), does that mean you have a PS3 and are on PSN?

[jovianconsensus]

Yes. My PSN name is (wait for it) JovianConsensus.

[once_a_banana]

Added!

[kaynorr]

Movies that are mostly-good bother me *more* than 100% drek, because it means that clearly the majority of the people involved in the process knew what they were doing - Sunshine falls into this category. It means that either the writer doesn't know how to tell a complete story, or someone else was brought in to finish or revise the script (AND that whoever had overall creative control didn't have the good sense or muscle to reject the shitty third act).

Yes, half a good movie is better than none at all. But it's also worse, becuase it means that real genuine talent went off the rails somehow, which is less forgiveable than an A For Effort.